St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25

ill., WI. cover and cook slowly for
twenty minutes, then add a cup of sweet
milk and a little parsley, cook five min
uteS over the hottest part of the stove,
turn into warm dish and send to the
table Immediately.
Carrots and celery cooked in cream
make nice dish. Select small tender
carrots, pare and cut in thin slices.
The green part of the celery not sent to
be cut in inch lengths. Boil the carrots
in sailed water until tender, scald the
celery in boiling hot water, and to this
add the carrots also, draining the latter.
There should be enough water to cover
all. Place in a stew pan and when
boiling thicken with a little corn
starch mixed in milk, add butter and.
salt to taste and serve in covered dish
Stuffed sweet potatoes are greatly
liked by many people. They go well
with roast of any kind. Put the po-
tatOes to bake in a hot oven full hour
before dinner; when they are baked so
as to give easily when pressed, remove;
cut off the tops above the middle, and
with a teaspoon scoop out the potato.
taking care to keep the skin intact.
When all the potatoes are removed
mash well, add plenty 81 butter, little
cold cooked meat of any kind, well
chopped, some parsley and an egg or
two well beaten, place back into the
skins, put on the tops and fasten
through with clean wooden Skewer
such as butchers use, put in pan and
into the oven for fifteen minutes. Send
to the table on a platter or i'll deep
covered dish.
A new way to cook eggplant is to
peel it over night and cut in incll-sauare
pieces. Let it remain in salt and water
all night. In the morning dip in egg
batter and drop into a kettle of boiling
water as for dOughnuts. When crisp
and brown send to the table with a little
celery or parsley about the edge of the
dish.
The present is the time when house
keepers delight to house-clean for the
winter. Pictures and curtains must be
removed and cleaned and although car
pets are not usually taken up they must
be thoroughly swept and the woodwork
well cleaned. All this may be accom-
plished bya clever woman without dis
turbing the masculine comfort and to do
this one room or two connecting. rooms
are cleaned at time, day being
needed for the work. The afternoon
previous all the pictures should be
taken down, carefully busted and put
into clean closet or another room; all
ornaments should also be removed. and
the curtains taken down and Numbered
ii needed or well shaken and folded
away. Nothing else in the room should
be disturbed. The next morning bright
and early, after the masculine fraternity
have breakfasted and departed, the
regular work on the room begins.
First. all the furniture must be care
fully busted and polished and put into
another room. Any large pieces can be
covered with sheet or blanket and the
shades busted and rolled up OF removed.
Ii the room is covered with a heavy car
pet it should be first Sprinkled with dry
sawdust to collect the dust. Open the
windows wide and sweep with the wind
When two apartments, such as front
and back parlOr, are cleaned together,
almost all of the dust will fly out the
windows if care is taken to sweep the
way of the wind. When the room is
swept once thoroughly, brush down the
walls and dust the woodwork. Sprinkle
well with damp salt for the second
sweeping, and if possible use softer
broom. The salt brightenS and cleanses
the carpet and also gathers the fine dust
After every corner is thoroughly swept,
the woodwork should be next washed
and the windows cleaned. After this is
done the furniture may be put back in
the room, the pictures hung up in their
places and the curtains put up if ready.
and by early afternoon two persons at
work should complete the room.
The wood work of furniture which
has become dull or fnger-marked NAV
be frightened by rubbing well with a.
little sweet oil and soft flannel cloth.
Ii bruised, several thicknesses of wet
paper should be placed on the bruise
and warm iron on the paper. This